Improvement in meat-cutters



G W. RAWSON.

MEAT-CUTTER.

No. 170,898. Patented Dec. 7, 1875.

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ATTEST:

NJEYERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTO" T C NrTED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

GEORGE W. BAWSON, OF BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIG-NOR OF TWO-THIRDS HIS RIGHT TO J ABEZ J. PIGGOTT, OE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, AND NATHAN T. BAKER, OF BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEAT-CUTTERS.

Specification formin g part of Letters Patent No. 170.898, dated December 7, 1875; application filed June 11, 1875.

To all 'whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. RAWSON, ot' Belleville, St. Clair county, lllinois, have invented a certain improved G'utter for Meat, &(5., of which the following is a specification:

This improvement consists of awooden bowl turned in the form of a section of a. sphere. A bail is' attached to the edge of the bowl by screw-clips at the eids. The socket member of a ball-and socket joint screws into the center of the bail, and the ball member of the joint carries a socket, in which turns the spindle of a fork, whose lower ends give journalbearing to a cutter-roller, above which is a handle, by which the roller is carr'ied over the interior surface of the bowl to cut or mash the contents. The roller is forced downward by a spiral spring in the spindle-socket.

Iu the drawings, Figure l is a perspectve View, showing the roller arned with cireular knives. Fig. 2 is a vertical section, showing a plain roller.

A is the bowl, in the section of a sphere, so that the roller B, carried on an arin turning on a ball-andsooket joint at the center of an imaginary sphere, of' which the bowl is a section, will press with equal force at all points of the bowl. U is the bal, whose ends have clanpig-jaws D, supplied with set-screws E, whose points press against the lower edge of the Inarginal rib a of the bowl, and hold the bail in position. At the center of the bail is a vertical screw-bole, F, in which screws the stem Gr of the socket-cup H, orming one member of the ball-nndsocket joint, of which l forms the ball. The stem J of the ball is tubular at the lower end, and constitutes the bearing-socket of the spindle K. At the ini ner end of the socket is a spiral spring, L, which bears against the end of the spindle, and tends to force it down in its sooket. At

the lower end of the spindle is a fork, M, whose ends have open bearings m for the gudgeons b of the roller B. Above the roller, and stretching across the fork, is a handle, N, by which the roller is operated. I are knives on the roller. These nny he circumferential, as shown, or longitudinal. In either case they are preferably made removable for convenience ot' sharpening. Between the circular knives shown at b Fig. l, are distancewashers b The operation is as follows: The article to' be cut or mashed is placed in the bowl, and the roller driven backward and forward across the bowl, at the same tine that the bowl is turned with the other hand, so that the inaterial in all parts of the bowl is operated upon.

The roller B may he smooth, as in Fig. 2, or armed With knives, as in Fig. 1, or with points in the latter case, as in Fig. 1.

It is useful for chopping meat or fruit, and, in the forner case, for pressing grapes, working butter, &0.

I claim herein as my invention l. The bowl A, having marginal rib a, and bail C, having chnnpin g jaws D and set-screws E, in combination with the knuckle-joint H I, forked arm J K, and roller B, all substantially as set forth.

2. The bowl A, roller B, and bail C, in combination with the ball-anl-socket joint H I, hollow sten J, forming a housing for the spring L, and spindle K, as and for the purpose. set fol-th.

In testinon y of which invention I have hereunto set my hand this 7th of April, 1875.

GEORGE W. RAWSON. Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, ROBERT BURNS. 

